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Please accept the thanks of a poor private for your noble, courageous, and Christian efforts in the great cause of Right, Justice, and Liberty, when Justice is unpopular, and you are obliged by duty to meet both friend and foe in this conflict.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses gratitude for someone's courageous efforts in advocating for justice and liberty.

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